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LINOTYPE MACHINE.

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LINOTYPE MACHINE.

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UNITED STATES" PATENT OEEicE. A

JEROME B. BELL, OF WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.

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SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent N o. 701,990, dated. June 10, 1902. Application tiled November 16, 1901.f 'Serial No. .82,581. (No model.)

To all whom/it may concern: f

Be it known that I, JEROME B. BELL, a citi'- zen of the United States, and-a resident of Wil'- mington, in the county of Newcastle, State of Delaware, have invented certain' new and useful Improvements in Linotype-Machines, ofwhich the following is a specication.

My invention relates to that class of linotype-machines in which two or more magazines provided each with its own distributer are arranged to deliver their matrices tothe same composing mechanism and are for thispurpose combined each with a set of escapement devices adapted to be operated from a single keyboard, whereby matrices can be de- Aline of matrices set up in such a machine may be composed of an .assortment of mat" rices taken from a number of magazines.

It is the object of my invention to provide a simple and efficient means of separating from one another the different kinds of matr rices which make up the assortment and of delivering each to their own magazine, to lbe there taken care of and'distributed in any suitable way. To this end I provide each one of the magazines with its own individual distributerin the usual way, and with these sev-I4 eral distributers I combine a selecting device or selector, as I shall hereinafter term it, to which the line of matrices is first delivered and by which the matrices which belong to one magazine are separatedfrom the others, and each kind of matrix is delivered to its own magazine to be there` taken care of and distributed. I thus have a selector which distributes the line of matrices each to its own magazine' and in combination therewith individual distributors, one for each magazine, which receive and distribute to their appro-` priate compartments in their respective magazines the matrices thus assorted and delivered by and from the selector.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my improvements, I will now proceed to describe more particularly and in detail and by reference tothe drawings accompanying and forming part of this specification the manner in which the same are or may be carried into effect.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of so much of a linotype-machine em- 'sev'eralfindvidual distributers.

enlarged scale.

lbodying my improvements as is required vfor the purposes of explanation. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of th'e'same'.' Fig. 3 is a right side elevation of thefsame. Fig. Ltis a left side elevation of the same. Fig. 5 is a rear elevation, on enlarged scale, of the upper portionx ofthe machine' at the'end where the selectorL `is located, showing said'selector and the delivery-channels leading from the same to the l Fig. 6 is a side'elevation ofthe samevparts on .the same transverse of the distributers and selectors, designed to show more clearly the manner in which the matrices are distribntedby the-selector to the several individual distributers.

Fig. 8 is a longitudinal central vertical sec-'ll tion'through the selector, together with a portion of one of the individual distributers below. Fig. 8a is a plan of the selector.

designed to illustrate-the permutations of the ribs and notches for purposes of selecting the matrices for the different magazines,-

there being in the presentI instancevfour `magazines', and consequently'four different V styles or assortments of matrices.v Fig. 9 is 4an end elevation" of the matrix-reversingA box' which forms part 'of the selector and is- Fig. y7-:is a vertical sectione :B gsa V i 8b, 8c, 8d, 8e are sectionsof this selecting-ban vtog'ethervwith elevationsof the notched mat rices which operate in connection therewith,

designed to reverse the matrices end for end or "turn them upside down before 'theyen-l gage the ribbed selecting-bar shown in Fig.

8. Fig. lOis a side elevation of the upper in the box fat this pointto' accommodate the elevator `or`swinging arm" that lifts (inthe same wayas in the ordinary linotype-machine) the line of matrices to the selector.

Fig. ll is an enlarged vertical central section of the reversing-box, designed to show. the

twist of the bore by which the reversal of thel pies by the time it :reaches the far end of the box.- Fig. 12 is a sectional detail illustrative' portion of the front end of this box,ldesigned -to show the side vopening'or clearance formed los` box. Fig. 11 represents the position'it occu= of the structure of that portion of the slide for pushing the line of matrices through the reversing-box which is in contact with the last matrix of the line. The shape of this part of the slide is indicated by dotted lines on the face of the matrix in Fig. 9. Fig. 13 is a longitudinal vertical section, on enlarged scale, of the entrance end of the selector, designed to show more clearly the devices by which the selector-screws at each revolution are caused to take one of the matrices. Fig. 14 is a cross-section, partly in elevation,of the same parts. Fig. 15 is a detail View designed to show the cam and lever` for controlling the movement of the depressing-linger by which the matresses are successively delivered to the selector-screws.

A is the main frame of the machine. In it are supported a series of superposed magazines (in this instance four in number) B B2 B3 B4, each of them being of substantially the same construction as the magazine of the commercial Mergenthaler linotype-machine and all of them delivering their matrices through a series of channels to one and the same composing mechanism of the same Well-known construction, and the line of matrices after having been set up is conveyed in the usual way to the casting-point and the slug cast therefrom, after which the matrices are taken by the swinging elevator-arm D and carried to the magazine-selector, where a pusher or slide E pushes them in the usual Way along and off from the short xed horizontal ribbed rail D', attached to and carried by the elevator-arm. It is at this point that my invention, in fact, begins, the line of matrices passing from the rail D into a selector, by which the several kinds of matrices in the line are selected out and delivered each to its appropriate one of the several magazines, there to be taken care of and distributed each to its own channel in that magazine in any known or suitable way. Before proceeding, however,to a description of the distributing means a brief description of the keyboard and connected appliances for selecting and delivering the desired matrix from any one of the plurality of magazines is desirable, although the same form no part of my present invention.

Each magazine is provided with its own set of escapements, one for each channel therein, and all of these escapements are adapted to be operated from one and the same keyboard,

for which purpose each escapement is provided with an auxiliary connection, each key is provided with a single main connection, and with these parts is combined means for shifting all the main connections bodily into operative relation with either one of the sets of auxiliary connections to the exclusion of the others. This plan of operating the escapements of any one of the magazines to the exclusion of the others is the subject of my application for Letters Patent filed September 13, 1901, Serial No. 75,325, and the structural details of the mechanism for this purpose herein illustrated are the same as those illustrated and described in my said application. Extended description here of these devices is therefore unnecessary. It is sufficient to say that the escapements proper, G, are similar to those of the commercial Mergenthaler machine, consisting each of a pivoted escapement-lever provided with the two pawls or pins which are projected alternately up through the bottom of the magazine into the channel to which the escapement pertains and with the springs for controlling its movements. j

F is the keyboard, and f represents a set of vertical key-bars or reeds, one for each key, which are actuated from the keys in the usual Way. These reeds do not, however, connect directly with the escapement-levers G, as in the ordinary Mergenthaler machine, but they are arranged to act upon any one of four sets of auxiliary reeds ff2f3f4, which are supported and spaced in a stationary guide in which they are free to move up and down. The auxiliary reeds f' are connected directly to the escapement-levers G of the lowest magazine B', just as in the ordinary Mergenthaler machine. The auxiliary reeds f2 f3f4 being farther removed from their escapements are connected thereto by suitable intermediaries consisting of the pivoted leversf5, the connecting-rods f6, and the pivoted 1eversf7, the connecting-rods of the upper magazines passing between the channels ofthe magazine or magazines below. The main reeds fcan tilt back and forth to be brought in line with either one of the four sets of auxiliary reeds, and for this purpose they move freely through a horizontal guide-combfs, which is capable of sliding back and forth from front to rear of the machine, and vice versa, and is actuated thus to move by an adjusting-lever f, pivoted alongside of the keyboard in convenient proximity to the operator and connected through the rods floja12 and intermediate pivoted lever]C11 to the comb f8. By suitable adjustmentof the handle-leverf9 the main reeds fcan be brought under either one of the sets of auxiliary reeds,which will thus be operated to the exclusion of the others. These parts, as already stated, are organized and arranged for joint operation, substantially as described and illustrated in my aforesaid application, Serial No. 75,325, and they require no further description here.

I proceed now to describe those portions of the machine in which my present improvements are embodied.

As before said, the several magazines and their individual distributers are combined with a selector, to which the matrices are first conveyed and from which they are delivered each to its appropriate individual magazinedistributer. I prefer to construct the selector on the same general plan as the ordinary linotype-distributer--that is to say, with feed-screws and a selecting-bar with per- IOO IIO

muted ribs to engage correspondingly-per-l muted notches or teeth in the matrices.

` asmuch as these matrices are already pro- 'the selecting-bar ofl the selector.

convenient to use the bottom of the matrix.- for this purpose. This of course necessitates vided in their tops with permuted notches to engage the distributor-bars of their own individual magazines, it becomes necessary to form elsewhere in them the notches to engage I nd `it two further vthings-first, that the matrix shall be-turned upside down before it reached the selecting-bar, 'so that its' bottom notches shall be in position to engage the ribs on that bar, and, secondly, that the matrix after having quitted-the selecting-bar and before it reaches thelindividual distributer pertaining vto its particular magazine shall beturned ribbed selecting-bar J with p'ermuted ribs which are engaged bythe toothed or notched bottoms of the `matrices,'the latterbeing'correspondingly permuted, so that each matrix' as it is pushed along-the selecting-bar J shall f drop off therefrom ata point over the' chute or guideway K', K2, K3, or K4, which leads to the distributor `L, L2, L5, or L4 of its appro` priate magazine B', B2, B5, or B4, and a device M, located in each chute or guideway (see more particularly FigsQ and 8)`in^the path of the descending matrix and in such position'relatively thereto that `the matrixby striking it will be caused in its further descent toturn end for end, as indicated by dottedv lines in Fig.- 7, so as to bring its toothed top again uppermost by the time it reaches its own` individual magazine distributer.

, through the box, and Fig. 11c the position it l These parts are located above the individualI distributers and their magazines and are suitably mounted in the framework of the machine, the ribbed rails and feed-screws of all the individualV distributors of the selecting mechanism extending from side to side of the machine in substantially parallel planes with one another.

The kind of matrix X employed by me in this connection is shown clearly in Figs. 7, l1,y

11b, 11. It is ofthe size and general configuration of the ordinary linotype-ma'trix, yhavin g in'its top the customary series of distributingteeth a: for use in connection with the individual distributor of its appropriate magahas upon its rear face (relatively to its movement through the selector) and extending from the bottom of the V-recess, in the sides of which the teeth a: are located, a slot or groove o, which tapers or gradually reduces Y the box.

in depth until it merges into the face of thev matrix. I remark here that the groove fu isv not formed inthe thinnest matrices, but only in those of greater thickness'than the latten* -and it varies in depthwith the 'thickness-of the matrix. The teeth'y'in all the matrices belonging to any one of the magazines 'are the' same; but those pertaining to the matrices of matrices pertaining to the other magazines,

as indicated in Figs; 8b, 8e, inclusive, and the ribs ofthe selecting-bar 'J are correspond- In the front portion of the reversing-box H I is formed the lateral opening or' clearance H',

Figs. 6, 10, to afford apassage foi the front' end `of the short ribbed rail'-D",which is attached to andmoves with the elevator-arm Df j in the usual way, and which whensaid arm is in elevated position is brought into the borel `of the reversing-box throughA this clearance."-

The line of matrices is pushed o froml the' rail D by the slide E, which-operates like the similar device in the ordinaryflinoty'pe-machine to advance the line` of matrices to the `point where they are taken bythe selector#v screws; but in thus moving to the selectorscrews the line of matrices is pushed, throughY the reversing-box'I-I. The box is tubular, and

` its longitudinal bore has the configuration in' cross-section of the matrix, having a rectan` guiar main portion to receivethe body of the matrix and side channels or 'grooves opening4v therefrom to receive the four ears of the matrix, as shown clearly in Figs. 9 and 11. This `:1.. the one magazine differ. from thoseiof the boreis spiral, making' a half-turn axially, so

that a matrix enteringfthe box top uppermost' willhavejbeenv turned so as to'be bottom jup'- permost by the time it reaches the lfar end' of the box. Figs. 9 and 1l show the position of the matrix as it enters the box, Fig. 11b the position it occupies when it gets half-way" occupies by the time it reachesthe far end of (shown'in dotted lines in Figl9,) the lower end of which is bent upward, so astopass' through a longitudinal slot H2 in the reversing-box up' into the bore thereof, a'ndon the extremity of Y this arm is thefollower-plate E2, which presses against vand advances the matrices'. This plate (which has the contour indicated' by the dotted lines `in Fig. 9) fits the body ofthe bore vin the boxV I-I, and itis swiveled or pivoted-t'o the arm E, as indicated in Fig. @12, so that in the bore therein.

The slide Ehas a curved arm E', I

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far end of the reversing-box lis the horizontalI`| selecting-bar J. With theselecting-bar .I1-are associated ythe three feed-screws I, which are power.'driven' androtate syillironouslyv with d each other and also with theyvarious screws" of -the individual distributors and which are arranged to operate in the same way as the three feed-screws of the ordinary linotypemachine. They are so constructed and arranged that they will engage one of the matrices X at each revolution. For this purpose, as shown more clearly in Figs. 13 and 14, I place in the end of the reversing-box adjoining the selector-screws a vertical central supporting-rib M, over and upon the top edge of which the matrices ride. The rib mis located in the reversing-box just beyond the point where the matrix is completely reversed, so that the central rib m will enter the V-recess in what was the upper end but is now the lower end of the matrix. The front end of the rib m projects forward beyond the end of the reversing-box and a short distance into the space between the selector-screws. Vertically above and in line with the central inclined supporting-rib m is the vertically-reciprocating depressor n, which moves up and down between suitable guides n3 and is provided with a shoulder n and a downwardlyextending finger n2 below the shoulder, Fig. 13. The depressor makes one reciprocation for each revolution of the selector-screws. A convenient mechanism for this purpose consists of a cam t', Fig. 15, fast on the shaft of the rear one of the two upper selector-screws I, which acts on the lever-arm z", fulcrumed at t2 to the frame of the machine and connected to another lever-arm 3 (independently hung upon the same fulcrum) bya spring connection t4, Figs. 8, 8a, through which the arm 3 will be vibrated by the arm while at the same time should the movement of the arm be temporarily obstructed for any reason the arm t" could still move, the spring connection i4 yielding for this purpose. To the free end of the arm 3 the depressor n is attached, as seen more plainly in Figs. 8 and 8, where it is shown as pivoted at 'n.4 to the arm i3 and provided with an extension or branch m5, which is connected to one end of a spiral spring n, attached at the other end to a standard a7, fixed to the main frame. The cam t' through the intermediate connections just described moves the depressor downward. The springnpulls the depressorupward and at the same time allows it to yield or turn a little on its pivot n to accommodate itself to the matrices. The shouldern' of the depressor rests in the bottom of the V-recess in the adjoining end of the front matrix of the line, with its finger n2 extending down upon the front face of the matrix and forming a stop to restrain its movement in such manner that its shoulder can engage only one matrix at a time. At each descent of the depressor the front matrix of the line is pushed down just at the time its ears will engage the front turns of the screw-threads on the selector-screws, and it brings up at its base against a shelf o, so located that it will hold the matrix at just the height requisite to compel it as it is carried forward by the selector-screws to engage the ribs of the selector-bar. This space between the front edge of the central rib m and the contiguous face of the finger n2 is just wide enough to accommodate the thinnest matrix. It is for this reason that the thicker matrices are provided with the tapering central groove o, so that, as seen in Fig. 13, the groove at its base will be deep enough to allow the matrix to clear the end of the rib m. As the matrix is pushed down, the tapering groove n will pass over the end of the rib m and will act to gradually push the matrix forward enough to allow it to clear the rib, the depressor n yielding for this purpose. In order to assure the line of matrices in position, I affix to the end of the reversing-box stationary guide-lips p, Fig. 14, which engage the ears of the front matrix, but only to such an extent as to permit those ears to pass down beyond them as soon as the matrix begins to descend. Their ears restrain the line of matrices in rear (which is pressed forward with yielding pressure by the slide E) from any undue forward movement, and after the depressor again rises its shoulder n2 will snap back into engagement with the matrix, which is then in front. The matrices are thus picked up one by one by the feed-screws I and supported by the shelf o until they are engaged with the, selecting-bar .I and by the screws carried along the selecting-bar .I until they severally reach the points thereon where they will cease to engage the bar and will drop therefrom into their respective chutes or guideways K K2 K3 K4. In thus dropping they will strike against the reversing-stop M, which is so positioned that it will act to cause the matrix to turn end for end as it descends,

so as to bring its toothed top .r uppermost IOO again by the time it reaches the distributer below. This is illustrated in Fig. '7, where in one of the chutes one of the matrices is represented in dotted lines above as in the act of turning and in dotted lines below as having completed its turn. Referring now more particularly to Figs. 5 to 8, each chuteis of a width and breadth to accommodate cornfortably a matrix passing down through it. It is expanded at its mouth or upper end to afford room for the matrix to turn end for end and then contracts as it extends downward in order to prevent another turn of the matrix and also to guide it properly between the distributer-screws.

The reversingstop M may conveniently consist, as shown, of a horizontal rod, which extends crosswise through all the chutes and is preferably covered with a rubber sleeve to prevent damage to the falling matrices as they strike against it.

In the arrangement shown in the drawings each chute delivers its matrices directly to the feed-screws of the individual distributer L' L2 L3 L4 with which it is associated, and for this reason it is necessary that the delivery end of the chute should be accurately positioned with reference to the threads of the feed-screws and that there should be capacity IIO gro.

fdl' @di Sim ent f th'deiver'endof the chuter in Case its normal relation tothe feed-screws l.should be 'disturbedi To f;t h is .end .theainner "and outerfwallls offthefdelivery end"`of eachy v chute ,projects-"downL- between without contacting with fthef'ifeed-screws 4ofits indi-` block-k2, the top of which/-forms-the floor-upon, which the base ofthe de scen`di-ng matrix. rests,

. is Y t gage the threadsfof the-three feed-screws, .as

lthe'iioor being of .f such` height that when the4 .matrix brings. upagainstfit vitsfzears :will en-V I v section of anarea tol receive the'ears-as well y v rindicated in Fig. 7.1{ffASthe matriirlis carried forward by the lfeedscfrei/ vs out lfrom underl the, front wall of't thejchvute its .topearslpass up over inclined `ra'ilsl hand the,"matrix*isv thus as it travels along raisedloafposi'tionwhereit will engage-theribs'of-the individ 'f ual distributerfbar `(not shown) which is "associatedwith cach' setof' feed-screws inthe;

usual'way and .is similarfto that foundin the ordinary linotypejmahne; y In order to ad- 'i jllStthe delivery end of the chuftefWith Iteference to the intervals between'.the'threadsof:

= Aj f the feed-screws, ysojthat when thematrix'de'# 3 A l f block 7a2 (to whichthefouter.wal11L`k"of'the scende its ears shall enterv those intervals, the

'chute is attached) is rn-ade' adj u'stable length--` `Vwise of the'screws byQm'ean's o fan adjusting-I 'screw los. 1 A slight moveinenton-ly of the 35 n y chute is so mountedggthatgitslower endcan` f" have the slight'playrequisitefto permitit toblock is l.required lfor,y this purpose, andthe movegwitld'-` vthe block. The rails l Z partake also of this movement of. adj ustme'ntor` which f purpose they are attached'to the blocklc?, the

bracket 165.. Thesedevices for deliveringt'he before referr Vmatrices from the" chute. to the distributer f feedscrews are,fhoweve'r,not hereclaimed.l

. `prior application, Sverial' 'l\lo.l'75,325, hereinedto, whereinl they are'fuliy de- Vscribed andillustrated;

Theyform partof the subject-matter of my The lfeed-screws 4of 1 'all fthe individual dis- ',tributers, as well as'thos'e'of theselectors', are .positively ygeared together, asA shown clearly f in Figs. 1,.5, 6, so that rtheyf'ire all revolved together and inunison'i.' L .l

'Dy gets yits inove` ment from a ca m `D2 Fig.j4, like that inthe ordinarylinotype-machine; )butowing to the ytuate 'the -elevator-.armffromthejcamjthroughV thein'termedi'ary -ofajpivotedfrodor .bar D3,

l 1 v .I remark that `thereceiving-box` Hcan be f usefully associ-ated and usedincombination which at itsuppe'rjendhas a-pin-andsloty connection with the elevator-arm, as shown.v

'with a one-magazine .machina-in whi'ch'case itwould be interposed between .the elevator" an dy the ribbed bar. 'f-fthe iisnrbuterL of that magazine', `justfasit is here interpose'df'bef tween the elevator andj-the'ribbed distribut' ing-.bar of` the selector. :The box would have as LDeiva bore confitllll-ing'in` Shape tO'thefma-f trix; but` that jbore i voi1 ld not jbefrifled'fory "twisted,butwouldbestraight'gfroin end to vend ,so as to deliver -gtheffma-trixto thefdisf` `tributer-.bar without turning-it upside downj;

I Valso .remark vthatwhether the bor'ebetwist- .edfor .not theside'ch'ann'elsorgroovesfor re-r ceivingthe ears may-bedispensed with', and v the box can-be'rinade'v ot.rectangularcrossf I i Y. "IIaving",y nowv` described my'l improvements fandthe bestway nowknownj tomepof carry- *l fing'the same ,into practi'cal=effect,l y,I state'- -in l conclusion thatfIfdo not-restrict 'ii'1ysel`f'n-arfn i vanism 'zand'y devices in {whichsaid inriprove- 'mentsare embodied, `formanifestlythe. sanne` can"be .considerably 4varied without .fde'parf z ture'ffrom the spiritof the inventiongbut 1 l What Iiclaim hereina's-new, and desire yto "secure,byIJettersPatent' v 1 11]. In al-inotyp'e-m'ach'ine Lafp] urality of su,

i perposedmagazines each adaptedt'oreceive a fullgassortment lolf Lilie v'cliaractars" usedV in l" thema'chine, andaniudividualf'distribu'terly'V i Y havin-g aribbed` bararidlfeed-screws foreachmagazine, in combination with aselector hav- 1 v @'rowlyto' the structural-.details fof fthe' inechf 4 `above the -indivi'dual distribnters,@laseparate` chute v or vmatrix pa'ssagefwayfrom the selec# i l i-tor.` to each individual distributelg matrices `having two sets' ofip erinuted-` teeth,f the one.. to engage the selectorbar.'vandnthej other to yengage the appropriate@individuali distribuvter-bar, and ineansifordeliveringia linegof"l vsaid matrices tothe selector.,l substantially as and for the purposeslhereinbefore setfforth.

Inra linotypemachi'na*afpluralityvof v 'magazinesand anindividual distributer for yeachk -magazinaiin combination withribbedf i 115 selector-bar and 'feed-screws'jfo'r separating outv thej matrices ofeachmagazin'e from thoseV of the others, .matrices'having-"at fthe itopa' l. lpermutedjset of teeth` to engage-thelribbed -bar vof `its appropriate individual distributer, v a .and atthebottom apermuted set ofgteeth tov engage the, ribbed selector-bari `means for Vde'- li'verin g aline of such matrices to the selectorbar, and for conducti'ng'-th`e same'from said vselector-bar each tov-its ownrindividualdisrL y Y :tributen means .forturning` the matrices u'pf vside down, before -they-eugag'eithemaid se lector-bar,.and meansforturningl themat- 1 ricos* end for'end so A4as tobringth'em again top. uppermost yafter.they/fleave the selectorbar 'and before 'they' reach Atheir appropriate l"individual distributers,'substantially.as ajn'd for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

` 3. In combination withntheselector -bar and f eed-screws,`the receivin'g-'boxfhavinga riiied or twisted (bore, and means for delivering matrices t o nd pushing them through said box,substzmtially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

4. In a linotype-inachine the combination with a ribbed distributer-bar and feed-screws and an elevator and pusher for delivering a line of matrices thereto, of an interposed receiving-box formed to receive the matrices as they are pushed from the elevator, a central supporting-rib fm, a vertieally-reciprocating depress'or which pushes downward the front matrix of the line into a position to be taken by the feed-screws, and a shelf for arresting the descent of the matrix at zt point where it will be in position as it is advanced by the feedscrews, to engage the ribbed distributer- Witnesses:

EWELL A. DICK, E. K. LUNDY, J r. 

